Pair of bills would create a national standard and prevent individuals from suing companies.

A group of House Republicans introduced a pair of bills Wednesday aimed at creating a national standard on data privacy and ...

The draft proposal is expected to face opposition from Democrats wanting a higher ceiling for federal data protection.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A customer looks at a laptop computer for sale last year. Comprehensive consumer privacy laws are taking effect in eight states ...

(TNS) — States that have enacted data privacy laws and those pursuing them are migrating into disparate camps in their approaches to privacy protections, setting up a clash if Congress enacts federal ...

When I joined Palantir in 2010 to cofound its Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering team, the proliferation of Internet services and post-9/11 acknowledgement of ...

New state privacy laws don't do enough to protect personal information used by financial businesses, a federal regulator says. Eighteen states, including California and Texas, passed privacy laws ...